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We present a general linear dispersion relation which describes the coupled behavior of magnetorotational, photon bubble, and convective instabilities in weakly magnetized, differentially rotating accretion disks. We presume the accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Omer Blaes , Aristotle Socrates

The stability of a rotating fluid disk to the formation of spiral arms is studied in the tightwinding approximation in the linear regime. The dispersion relation for spirals that was derived by Bertin et al. is shown to contain a new,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. E. Montenegro , C. Yuan , B. G. Elmegreen

The chiral magnetic effect emerges from a miroscopic level, and its interesting consequences have been discussed in the dynamics of the early universe, neutron stars and quark-gluon plasma. An instability is caused by anomalous electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Yasufumi Kojima , Yuri Miura

We present analytical and numerical studies of magnetorotational instabilities occuring in magnetized accretion disks. In these studies we make use of the linearised compressible MHD equations. These calculations are performed for general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-08 J. W. S. Blokland , E. van der Swaluw , R. Keppens , J. P. Goedbloed

Many astrophysical systems of interest, including protoplanetary accretion disks, are made of turbu- lent magnetized gas with near solar metallicity. Thermal ionization of alkali metals in such gas exceeds non-thermal ionization when…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alexander Hubbard , Colin McNally , Mordecai-Mark Mac Low

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) of a weakly ionized, differentially rotating, magnetized plasma disk is investigated in the multi-fluid framework. The disk is threaded by a uniform vertical magnetic field and charge is carried by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. P. Pandey , Mark Wardle

Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities can be responsible for the formation of structures with various scales in astrophysical jets. We consider the stability properties of jets containing both the azimuthal and axial field of subthermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Alfio Bonanno , Vadim Urpin

We consider the combined role of the thermal ionization, magneto-rotational and gravitational instabilities in thin accretion disks around supermassive black holes. We find that in the portions of the disk unstable to the ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kristen Menou , Eliot Quataert

Thermal instability in an electron-ion magnetized plasma, which is relevant in the intragalactic medium (IGM) of galaxy clusters, solar corona, and other two-component plasma objects is investigated. We apply the multicomponent plasma…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Anatoly K. Nekrasov

The propagation of a nonlinear stationary thermomagnetic wave in superconducting media is qualitatively analyzed in view of the effect of an external magnetic field. The velocity and the thickness of the wave front are estimated. It is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Nizam A. Taylanov

Thermal instability is one of the most important processes in the formation of clumpy substructure in magnetic molecular clouds. On the other hand, ambipolar diffusion, or ion-neutral friction, has long been thought to be an important…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mohsen Nejad-Asghar , Jamshid Ghanbari

We present results of a set of three-dimensional, general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations of thin accretion discs around a non-rotating black hole to test their thermal stability. We consider two cases, one that is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 B. Mishra , P. C. Fragile , L. C. Johnson , W. Kluźniak

In the present study, we addressed the question of how the growth rate of the magnetorotational instability is modified when the radial component of the stellar dipole magnetic field is taken into account in addition to the vertical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-07 Ebru Devlen , Ayse Ulubay , E. Rennan Pekünlü

We study thermal instability in a magnetized and partially ionized plasma with charged dust particles. Our linear analysis shows that the growth rate of the unstable modes in the presence of dust particles strongly depends on the ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mohsen Shadmehri , Sami Dib

Spinning ice discs in nature have been reported for more than a century, yet laboratory experiments have yielded diverse observations and contradictory explanations, leaving the mechanism behind the disc motion elusive. Here we combine…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-18 Min Li , Lailai Zhu

We investigate the nonlinear growth stages of bending instability in stellar disks with exponential radial density profiles.We found that the unstable modes are global (the wavelengths are larger than the disk scale lengths) and that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Ya. Sotnikova , S. A. Rodionov

We study drag-driven instability in a protoplanetary disc consisting of a layer of single-sized dust particles which are coupled to the magnetized gas aerodynamically and the particle-to-gas feedback is included. We find a dispersion…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Mohsen Shadmehri , Razieh Oudi , Gohar Rastegarzade

We present a study of instabilities occuring in thick magnetized accretion disks. We calculate the growth rates of these instabilities and characterise precisely the contribution of the magneto-rotational and the convective mechanism. All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric van der Swaluw , Jan-Willem Blokland , Rony Keppens

We perform numerical analyses of the structure induced by gravitational instabilities in cooling gaseous accretion discs. For low enough cooling rates a quasi-steady configuration is reached, with the instability saturating at a finite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Cossins , Giuseppe Lodato , Cathie Clarke

Eccentric Keplerian discs are believed to be unstable to three-dimensional hydrodynamical instabilities driven by the time-dependence of fluid properties around an orbit. These instabilities could lead to small-scale turbulence, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Adrian J. Barker , Gordon I. Ogilvie